单词 | to shoot the corn off |
释义 | > as lemmasTo shoot the corn off a. With away, off, out: To remove or separate from its place or environment by shooting; to carry away, destroy, or break off by a shot. Also to shoot to pieces and similar phrases. To shoot the corn off: to celebrate the harvest-home with the shooting of guns. South African. Cf. blow v.1 24. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > by shooting shoot1340 1340–70 Alisaunder 277 A schaft with a scharp hed shet oute his yie. 1615 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 63 A Duch marener..had his hand shott offe and his face all batterd. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii 62 We shot away their middle mast. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 73 He will..fix ye a couple of new [Ship's] Knees, when the old ones are shot to the Devil. 1849 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah (1850) vii. 65 People had been shot all to pieces and survived. 1859 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. V. xx. 309 His..equerry had his head shot off by a cannon ball. 1886 Hist., Product., & Resources C.G.H. 226 Powder is given them to enable them to carry out what is known in the vernacular as ‘shooting the corn off’. 1901 D. B. Hall & A. Osborne Sunshine & Surf v. 55 The man-of-war fired fifteen shots before they shot away the flagstaff. 1939 R. G. Collingwood Autobiogr. vi. 49 A philosophical doctrine was stuck up and shot to pieces by the ‘realistic’ criticism. 1946 W. H. Auden in Harvard Alumni Bull. 15 June 707 And nerves that never flinched at slaughter Are shot to pieces by the shorter Poems of Donne. 1955 E. Pound Section: Rock-drill xcii. 81 Semele's personality shot to atoms. 1973 Black Panther 31 Mar. 2/1 These same pilot officers..are now being encouraged to avenge their injured pride which was shot to hell because many of the anti-war enlisted men were Black. 1979 Homes & Gardens June 81/1 The Season has been shot to pieces this century. < as lemmas |
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